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        <h1 style="margin: 0px; float: left;">PHPCrawl webcrawler library/framework</h1>
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        <h3>Using multiple processes</h3><br />
        Since version 0.8 phpcrawl is able to use multiple processes to spider a website. In most cases using
        more processes simultaneously will speed up the crawling-procedure dramatically.<br /><br />
        
        In order to start phpcrawl in multi-process-mode, simply call the <a href="classreferences/PHPCrawler/method_detail_tpl_method_goMultiProcessed.htm" target="blank">goMultiProcessed()</a>-method
        instead of the <a href="classreferences/PHPCrawler/method_detail_tpl_method_go.htm" target="blank">go()</a>-method to start the crawler.
        
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        <span style="color: #0000BB">$crawler&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;new&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">MyCrawler</span><span style="color: #007700">();
        <br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$crawler</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">setURL</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"www.foo.com"</span><span style="color: #007700">);
        <br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$crawler</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">addContentTypeReceiveRule</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"#text/html#"</span><span style="color: #007700">);

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        <br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">//&nbsp;...
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        <br />//&nbsp;Start&nbsp;crawling&nbsp;by&nbsp;using&nbsp;5&nbsp;processes
        <br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$crawler</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">goMultiProcessed</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">5</span><span style="color: #007700">);

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        However, there are some things to consider when using the multi-process mode:
        
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          <li>Some PHP-extensions are required to successfully run phpcrawl in multi-process mode (PCNTL-extension, SEMAPHORE-extension, PDO-extension). For more details see the <a href="requirements.html">requirements page</a>.</li>
          <li>The multi-process mode only works on unix/linux-based systems</li>
          <li>Scripts using phpcrawl with mutliple processes have to be run from the commandline (php CLI)</li>
          <li>Increasing the number of processes to very high values does't automatically mean that the crawling-process will go off faster!
              The ideally number of processes depends on a lot of circumstances like the available bandwidth, the local technical environment (CPU),
              the delivery-rate and data-rate of the server hosting the taget-website and so on.<br />
              Using something between 3 to 10 processes should be good values to start from.
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